Ancient Ethics
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Ancient Ethics

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Ancient Ethics

About this book

This volume presents essays on Ancient ethics from Homer to Plotinus with a focus on the significance of Ancient ethical thinking for contemporary ethics. Adapting Kant's words, we might describe philosophers today as holding that meta-ethics without normative ethics is empty; normative ethics without meta-ethics is blind. One fascinating feature of Ancient ethics is its close connection between content and method, between normative ethics and meta-ethics. In connecting ethical, epistemological, and cosmological issues, Ancient ethical theories strive for an integrated understanding of normativity. The project of this volume is to capture some of the colours of the bright spectrum of ancient ethics. The goal of bundling them together is, ultimately, to shed better light on the issues of contemporary ethics. Topics: Classical Chinese Ethics, Indian Ethics, Homeric Ethics, Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, Hellenistic philosophy, Plotinus, Ancient and Modern Moral Psychology, Hybrid Theories of Normativity, The Unity of the Virtues, The Art of Life and Morality (Lebenskunst und Moral). Contributors: J. Annas, M. Anagnostopoulos, R. Aprressyan, Th. C. Brickhouse / N. D. Smith, J. Bussanich, C. Collobert, S. Delcomminette, W. Detel, D. Frede, L. Gerson, Ch. Halbig, J. Hardy, O. Höffe, B. Inwood, M.-Th. Liske, L. Pfister, M. McPherran, J. Piering, G. Rudebusch, D. Russell, G. Santas, Ch. Shields, M. Sim, C. C. Taylor.

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Yes, you can access Ancient Ethics by Jörg Hardy, George Rudebusch, Jörg Hardy,George Rudebusch in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Philosophy & History & Theory of Philosophy. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

Information

Publisher
V&R Unipress
Year
2014
Print ISBN
9783899716290
eBook ISBN
9783862346295
Edition
1
Topic
Philosophy
Subtopic
History & Theory of Philosophy

Table of contents

  1. Title Page
  2. Copyright
  3. Note on Convention
  4. Contributors
  5. Contents
  6. Body
  7. Jo¨rg Hardy / George Rudebusch: Ancient Ethics: Introduction
  8. Eastern Traditions
  9. Lauren F. Pfister: Classical Debates about the Moral Character of Human Nature in Ancient China
  10. John Bussanich: Ethics in Ancient India
  11. Early Greek Thought
  12. Catherine Collobert: Homeric Ethics: Fame and Prudence
  13. Ruben Apressyan: Homeric Ethics: Prospective Tendencies
  14. Plato
  15. Gerasimos Santas: The Socratic Method and Ethics
  16. Christopher Taylor: The Ethics of Plato’s Apology
  17. Thomas C. Brickhouse and Nicholas D. Smith: Socratic and Platonic Moral Psychology
  18. Jo¨rg Hardy: Is Virtue Knowledge? Socratic Intellectualism reconsidered
  19. George Rudebusch: Knowledge Rules
  20. May Sim: The Divided Line and United Psyche in Plato’s Republic
  21. Mark L. McPherran: Socrates and the Religious Dimension of Plato’s Thought
  22. Aristotle
  23. Mariana Anagnostopoulos: Aristotle on the Nature and Acquisition of Virtue
  24. Daniel C. Russell: Deliberation and Phronesis in Aristotle’s Ethics
  25. Christopher Shields: Goodness is Meant in Many Ways
  26. Michael-Thomas Liske: Bedeutet Aristoteles’ hexis-Konzeption der Tugend eine ethisch-psychologische Determination?
  27. Dorothea Frede: Vom Nutzen und Nachteil der aristotelischen Tugendethik fu¨r das Leben
  28. Hellenistic philosophy
  29. Julia Annas: Ethics in Stoic Philosophy
  30. Brad Inwood: Moral Judgement in Seneca
  31. Julie Piering: Cynic Ethics: Lives Worth Examining
  32. Plotinus
  33. Lloyd P. Gerson: Being as Goodness
  34. Sylvain Delcomminette: Plotin et le proble`me de la fondation de la liberte
  35. General Topics
  36. Christoph Halbig: Die Einheit der Tugenden. U¨ berlegungen zur Struktur eines Problems
  37. Wolfgang Detel: Semantic Normativity and the Foundation of Ancient Ethics
  38. Otfried Ho¨ffe: Lebenskunst und Moral. Skizze einer Fundamentalethik
  39. General Bibliography